Two-hundred-fifty Swedish tanks of the type BMP-1 are secretly being shipped to Iraq, Swedish Radio News reveals. It is illegal in Sweden to export weapons to Iraq, but the tanks are being sold via a company in the Czech Republic.

The top leadership of Sweden’s Social Democrat party has spent a second day discussing the future of the controversial arms agreement with Saudi Arabia. The party’s coalition partner, the Greens, have demanded the agreement be cancelled, as have a number of leading Social Democrats.

Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson is suing Apple for patent infringement. Ericsson says it filed a complaint with the American International Trade Commission after Apple refused an offer to have a court determine fair licencing terms.

Starting on Sunday, 1 March, new rules will be introduced for the around 160,000 unemployed Swedes who are enrolled in different active labor market policy programs. And this may cause many to lose their support if they do not follow the requirements of the programs.

"We want to show the great diversity of museums Stockholm has to offer."

There's been a boom of private museums opening in Stockholm recently, with five starting up over the past five years in and around the city. Directors of three private museums in Stockholm gathered at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm's Stureplan neighborhood for a conference discussing the role of private museums in Stockholm's cultural life and how they fit in with their public siblings.

A new law meant to improve accessibility for disabled people to public and commercial spaces is being criticized by advocates for both disabled persons and for small businesses, and now the government has promised to review the rules.

Facing criticism from the European Union, the Swedish government has decided to look into the use of "fixed-term contracts" for workers who often have unstable financial situations and limited benefits as a result.

Even though sharp criticism is being levelled at banks that are arranging private meetings where the heads of certain publicly-traded companies meet with analysts and investors, leading to a possible risk of insider trading, the government is not currently considering changing the rules, according to Swedish Radio News.

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